vinkodex.Air suspension: cracking air springs and a tired compressor
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The fault
How you spot it
The Touareg works with four air springs and one central compressor. The rubber bellows of the air spring cracks over time, the system loses pressure, and the compressor tries to make it up by running more and more, until it burns out. The symptom is typically that the car settles overnight, or stands lopsided.
The fault goes in a circle: the leaking air spring is what kills the compressor, so if only the compressor is replaced, the next one goes too. A full overhaul is four springs plus a compressor plus a dryer, and that is the most expensive routine repair on a Touareg.
Which model
Who it affects
The card opens the generation, the engine or the transmission.
Generations and models
3 generations.
Volkswagen
7L
Touareg
Rudolf Stricker / CC BY-SA 3.0
Volkswagen Touareg 7L
2002–2010
Volkswagen
7P
Touareg
M 93 / CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Volkswagen Touareg 7P
2010–2018
Volkswagen
CR
Touareg
Thomas doerfer / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Air suspension: cracking air springs and a tired compressor
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Sources
How we know
Information, not an expert opinion
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